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Wearable Customizable Displays
igargoyle writes "France Telecom has done some fun R&D to display pixilated images from your cellphone on your shirt or sleeve. These raver garments can even be used as a standalone device that can animate based on sounds and gestures. With better resolution, designer memes and logos might become the hot intellectual property being shared by the young hipsters. Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit."
Oh dear. Penis enlargment spam saying the following: Is your penis this tiny?....
Not a sentence!
Could be cool to wear a demo or a game of life :)
Trolling using another account since 2005.
... if T-Shirt spammers start to sent typical spam messages (probably with the help of virii). Imagine your T-Shirt suddenly turning to "cheap Viagra at www.somewhere.com". But even more interesting would it be for girls if suddenly a typical porn message shows up on their back ...
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit
People are already paying for the apparent privilidge of advertising nike and Abercrombe and what not. If anything, it'll just become the rotating billboard of the fashion industry, every thirty seconds it changes to another advertisment. Now, the real problem is when the wrong types of ads flash across your chest. Think about it, you're trying to pick up chicks and an add like "Levitra helped me with my erectile dysfunction" comes up. Bad news all around.
..."Kick me" into the 21st century!
I'm still waiting for LCD displays to appear on the outside of glasses - as the eyes are where all the emotion in expression is, it could become a reasonably powerful medium for expression.
... Assuming everyone just doesn't go for the red-crosshairs. Bleh.
Yeah, and maybe Microsoft would love to see SCO win their case with IBM...
Is there really any question that marketing people would love to exploit something like this? Any surface they can manage to slap a brand name onto, they'll use.
I'll leave you all with a little Bill Hicks:
The Free desktop that Just Works
Oh, you mean pixellated.
(Previous comment might sound snobbish, but I learned the meaning of aforementioned word the hard way -- after the graduate aptitude test I took, where the friggin' word showed up. Not fun.)
Pet peeve: Profane people propagating perfunctory pedantry.
Talk about muscles... why not wearing a suit that displays bulging muscles.
.... oh wait! That is the battery to power your shirt!" (running away from the geek)
Chick sees me with the muscle suit:
"Are you excited to see me or is
I claim that
1. Pr0n drove the continuing development of the internet
2. Internet pr0n is becoming increasingly technologically sophisticated and interactive
3. Mobile devices are the natural extension of the internet
4. Use of cell phones among children is increasingly prevalent
5. Graphics from cell phones can now be projected on to your shirt
6. Oh dear...
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
I can'e believe the stupid demo videos. In one segment, a guest arrives at a conference or hotel or something, he is greeted by a woman with a high-collared jacket with a panel right above her tits, it's scrolling the message "bienvenue." I wasn't aware that women needed any technological assistance to get men to stare at their chests. If the women in this scenario truly wanted to make the men feel really welcome, they'd ditch the high collar and show some cleavage.
But what went way beyond stupid was the video of the girl walking down the street, she sees a sk8r b0i, she wants to hit on him, so she grabs her cel phone and types a message "cafe" to the panel on her purse. Once again, a little cleavage would do a much better job of attracting a man. The purse's display panel was pointed backwards, hanging back off the woman's ass, so I guess if you wanted to attract people stalking you from behind, that would be the perfect way.
If you suffer a grand mal for example, it could give life saving instructions to people around on how to assist you in such a scenario.
A: That guy's freaking out, I think it's a seizure or something... Hey, look at this display on his chest.
B: Cool. Check it out, it can play Tetris.
A: Don't you think we should help him?
B: Two-player Tetris.
A: Oh yeah?
Know what?
when a large area of the tshirt is used for display,one thing naughty guys can do is,display nice big dancing boobs in their chest , with a add-on " squeeze my boobs!!"
Why does yahoo do this
Only in blue
Yeah thats all I need.
Not only will my face go red with embarrasment my cloths will too!
Not necessary. We could also save you by cutting it off.
Making the entire person appear transparent is difficult in practice, as it only works well when people look at you from just the right angle and distance.
However, for 50% of the population I'd be more than content if only the shirt itsself could be made to appear transparent, which would be easier to implement, and significantly more impressive visually (note: this depends on the wearer).
If you suffer a grand mal for example, it could give life saving instructions to people around on how to assist you in such a scenario.
Yes, and to make sure that it's an attention grabber, you could also have it say, "I'M HAVING A SEIZURE", in big, flashing letters.
Imagine Britney Spears appearing on stage in electroluminescent garb, when suddenly some PDA-toting geek in the crowd hacks her pants and across her ass we see, "first post!"
I put the "wry" in "riot."
We can't have this... it'll make people wear adverts on them all the time... oh wait, they're doing that already.
I am unique, just like you, and you, and you...
Now I really can wear my heart on my sleeve!